Penang Joins Malaysia’s Growing Fabric Recycling Movement with Kloth Cares
- Kloth Circularity
- Jan 15
- 4 min read
Penang, 15 January 2026 — Kloth Cares, the community movement under Kloth Circularity, is proud to announce its expansion into Penang, bringing its fabric recycling network to one of Malaysia’s most environmentally progressive states and making responsible clothing disposal more accessible to northern communities.
The expansion comes in response to strong public demand and growing concern over clothing and fabric waste. In Penang, Kloth Cares has partnered with key commercial and public space partners to install fabric recycling bins at strategic locations, including:
AEON Mall Bukit Mertajam
AEON BiG Bukit Minyak
Gurney Plaza
Setia SPICE Convention Centre
Pengkalan Weld Pos Malaysia
New World Park
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Newly installed Kloth Cares bins at Gurney Plaza and Setia SPICE Convention Centre increase recycling accessibility for the Penang community.
“We’ve received countless requests from Penangites to install Kloth Cares fabric recycling bins, and we’re proud that this is now a reality. With recycling awareness already widespread, we anticipate a significant collection of unwanted fabrics and clothing from Penang. Now, the community can take meaningful action with this facility in place,” said Nik Suzila Hassan, Co-founder of Kloth Circularity.
A collaboration between PPB Properties, Riiicycle and Kloth Cares, the REplace Project Recycling Corner at New World Park offers the public 24/7 access to responsibly recycle paper, plastic, tins, e-waste and fabrics. Riiicycle, a recycling partner of Kloth Cares in Penang, plays a key role in supporting the local community by providing accessible recycling infrastructure and ensuring that recyclable materials are managed responsibly to maximise environmental impact.
“I am proud to see Kloth Cares expand into my hometown of Penang and to witness its collaboration with Riiicycle through the REplace Project Recycling Corner at New World Park. Both organisations play an important role in preventing waste from ending up in landfills, and I encourage the Penang community, corporates and institutions to support these meaningful recycling initiatives,” said Pauline Goh, President of Alliance Française de Penang.
“The public is encouraged to deposit only clean and dry recyclables to prevent contamination and ensure that everyone’s recycling efforts are effective,” said Chin Huat, Founder of Riiicycle.
Guided by its 5R Principles — Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose and Recycle — Kloth Cares enables the public to recycle a wide range of items, including clothing, undergarments, footwear, bags and towels. A full list of accepted items is available via Kloth Circularity’s fabric recycling guide.
To date, Kloth Circularity has collected over 14 million kg of unwanted textiles and clothing across Malaysia and Singapore, equivalent to more than 84 million of t-shirts diverted from landfills and incinerators. The growing bin network now covers Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Putrajaya, Negeri Sembilan, Melaka, Johor Bahru, Perak and Penang, alongside its neighbouring country, Singapore.
Collected items are channelled through multiple recycling pathways, including export to developing countries via the global textiles and clothing recycling market, and upcycling through Kloth Woman Up — a social impact initiative that empowers women from marginalised communities through creative sewing. To date, over 48,500 pieces of upcycled merchandise have been produced and sold, enabling these ladies to generate a fair income while extending the life of discarded textiles.
Kloth Cares works in partnership with Life Line Clothing Malaysia (LLCM) as its fabric recycling operator. To learn more about how deposited clothing and fabrics are processed, visit Kloth Circularity’s recycling process page.
Kloth Circularity continues to call upon corporates, institutions and community spaces to collaborate through its bin adoption programme, as it works towards expanding fabric recycling access nationwide. Each contribution made at a Kloth Cares bin helps cultivate long-term recycling habits, supporting Malaysia’s transition towards a more circular and sustainable future.
For queries, please contact:
Adelyn Ghwee
Head of Marketing & Communications
Mobile: +60 12-798 1797
Email: adelyn@klothcircularity.com
About Kloth Circularity
Founded and formed on December 11th, 2013, Kloth Circularity is a social enterprise that aspires to become the catalyst of the textiles, clothing, and plastics circular economy in Southeast Asia and beyond. To combat climate change and its impact, we are aligned with Kloth's 5R philosophy of the circular economy, ‘Rethink, Reduce, Reuse, Repurpose, Recycle’. Our core principles and business operations are aligned with the environmental, social and governance (ESG) framework.
About Kloth Cares
Kloth Cares is an environmental, economic, and social impact brand that aspires to become the catalyst of the textiles, clothing, and plastics circular economy in Southeast Asia and beyond. We are committed to being the preferred and trusted brand for providing effective, ethical and impactful waste management solutions in enhancing recycling rates, managing, and innovating textiles, clothing, and plastic waste with a renewed life, such as new products and resources with higher material value and purpose. Our approach is to establish value chains and develop movements with various stakeholders to divert waste from incinerators, landfills, and oceans.
About Kloth Woman Up
Kloth Woman Up is an economic, social, and environmental movement. We advocate ‘Rising with #SHEconomy’ to improve women’s livelihoods in the marginalised, struggling, and vulnerable communities by creating job opportunities. Leaving no one behind, we uphold our core values of bringing ladies from informal sectors into the economy to earn fair wages. Our movement has benefited Malaysian and Singaporean ladies through training such as upskilling courses in creative sewing and hiring them to sew upcycled merchandise and gifts. The wonderful creations by these ladies are sold directly to customers such as individuals (B2C), corporations and institutions (B2B), and governments (B2G).
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